3D printing assists surgeons with practice models

Megan Applegate | | Health Imaging | Enterprise Imaging

3D printers are providing surgeons with lifelike models and their patients with deeper understanding of the procedures they face. In addition to more traditional 3D printers that can build muscle and and other structures, newer technologies avialable at places like Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston are now able to recreate flesh and bone. Read more from the New York Times at the link below:

Off the 3-D Printer, Practice Parts for the Surgeon

Megan Applegate

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